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Handouts, readings, activity, and quiz to help teach source evaluation and identification of bias.
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Check Out Checkology - There are wonderful lessons to assign students.
Check Out Checkology - There are wonderful lessons to assign students.
WEBSITE EVALUATION WORKSHEET.pdfEvaluating Sources
Evaluating Sources
This is a wonderful checklist I found online. It should be used after direct instruction has been completed.
Source Credibility
Source Credibility
The first page explains the difference between credible/acceptable sources, biased sources, and sources that are not accountable to the truth.
Looking for BiasReading for Bias Guide
Reading for Bias Guide
Questions to help student evaluate bias in a text (By Folsoi and Phear)
Quick Lesson Idea: Consider teaching students to examine a source carefully by using images. Here is the Cartoon Analysis Guide from the Library of Congress. Mandy Lenham helped me make this analysis guide for understanding graphs. Please ask me if you want me to find cartoons or data presented in charts or graphs on a particular subject for your students.
Quick Lesson Idea: Consider teaching students to examine a source carefully by using images. Here is the Cartoon Analysis Guide from the Library of Congress. Mandy Lenham helped me make this analysis guide for understanding graphs. Please ask me if you want me to find cartoons or data presented in charts or graphs on a particular subject for your students.
Amazing Resource!!!
Amazing Resource!!!
You will find a plethora of resources when you make an account with Stanford's Civic Online Reasoning. They link to Crash Course videos, curriculum, and quizzes to help students learn how to evaluate different kinds of sources.
You will find a plethora of resources when you make an account with Stanford's Civic Online Reasoning. They link to Crash Course videos, curriculum, and quizzes to help students learn how to evaluate different kinds of sources.
Quick Lesson Idea
Quick Lesson Idea
Click here to view this Padlet sort below. Once students have read and discussed the materials about source credibility and bias, they should be able to complete this online activity where they can drag each source into the correct category If you need another copy of it, please let me know, and I will provide it. I can also modify it with sources from your content area to dovetail better with your classes.
Click here to view this Padlet sort below. Once students have read and discussed the materials about source credibility and bias, they should be able to complete this online activity where they can drag each source into the correct category If you need another copy of it, please let me know, and I will provide it. I can also modify it with sources from your content area to dovetail better with your classes.
Credible sources guide..pdfExamples of credible and non-credible sources in lieu of activity or post activiy
The webpage below was designed for Ms. Liaw's students, who do an inquiry project on sugar consumption. After they completed a hands-on sort similar to the Padlet above, they had to sort look at the website on this page and identify whether or not they were credible. Here is a Schoology quiz that accompanies the sites on the site above. You can add it to your course.
Exploring Bias: You can scroll through the examples of bias in the mashup between Meghan and Kate's treatment by the press when they do the exact same things.
Exploring Bias: You can scroll through the examples of bias in the mashup between Meghan and Kate's treatment by the press when they do the exact same things.
Quick Mini-Lesson Idea: If you want me to find examples to make a mashup on a topic that you are covering in your class , let me know.
Quick Mini-Lesson Idea: If you want me to find examples to make a mashup on a topic that you are covering in your class , let me know.
EXAMPLES OF BIAS: Scroll this series of images comparing the treatment of the pregnancy's of Meghan Markle and Cate Middleton. It is a basic, yet disturbing, look at bias in reporting. It makes very clear what bias is to students who struggle with the concept.
General Press Resource and Single Lesson Idea: Consider assigning each student or groups of students to research an articles from different sources. Have students assess, either individually or in groups, an article's bias. You may consider using some or all of the prompts on the Looking for Bias (same as above) handout below the Online Sources of Information to help students do this.
General Press Resource and Single Lesson Idea: Consider assigning each student or groups of students to research an articles from different sources. Have students assess, either individually or in groups, an article's bias. You may consider using some or all of the prompts on the Looking for Bias (same as above) handout below the Online Sources of Information to help students do this.
Online Journalistic Sources of Information.pdfUsing Images to Teach Fact, Opinion, Bias, Interpretation and Judgment
Using Images to Teach Fact, Opinion, Bias, Interpretation and Judgment
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